True, you can (or could) still hear CW on the maritime bands since not all
countries switched over at the same time. The change actually started years
ago. There were a number of large ships sailing without Radio Officers in
the early 90's during Gulf War I (the last time I worked on shipboard
syst
Ron wrote :
>...the "600 Meter Research Group" that held, for a
>tantalizing-short time, transmitting licenses to work on
>several old maritime frequencies around 500 kc/s. But
>the US Coast Guard objected on principle and our
>privileges were cut short for now even though there was
>no record of
Wow! Great Mike! Be sure to send a reception report to Denice Stoops PO BOX
381, Bolinas, Ca. 94924-0381. I'll bet they post that one!
Yeah, it's sad how quiet 600 meters is. Here in North America it's largely
destined to become a mass of correction beacons for GPS, providing short
range signals
Copied KPH here in the far north of ZL1 on 426kHz from 010725UTC until
about 010800UTC when he went into a deep QSB null, but popped up again
for short periods during the next half-hour.
During the KPH 'night of nights' last year I also copied them on 426.
As someone who was a marine R/O for 3
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